Joyce Grenfell Quotes

People seem to be looking for discipline in a topsy-turvy world.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

Disorder brings about order.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

You always have to wrestle with chaos.

The one thing I do know is change is coming so quickly

Most want progress but hardly anybody wants change. Change is almost always a little traumatic.

Chaos is the natural state, and theater tries to make sense of it, but it's got to be a little messy to be believable.

Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.

I frequently hear our present period described as uncertain, confused, chaotic.

We adore chaos because we love to produce order.

Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.

I think frankly when it comes to chaos you ain't seen nothing yet.

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.

Change is certain. Progress is not.

The urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.

If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.

It is sure to be a year on the brink of catastrophe or rejuvenation.

Progress knows nothing of fixity. It cannot be pressed into a definite mould…. Progress is ever renewing, ever becoming, ever changing--never is it within the law.

I am for the restoration of order, not for the restoration of the old order.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

There is no instant step from disorder to order.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.